Acting
Tina Carver
Born March 24, 1922 · Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Died February 18, 1982 · aged 59
Smoky-voiced, sultry Tina Carver began her career in the post-war stages of Germany and France. Having married an Indiana academic who served the High Commission for Occupied Germany in a legal capacity, her acting opportunities were confined to entertaining troops under the auspices of the Special Services. Nonetheless, she had both the looks and the talent to secure leads in quality plays like "…
Known For
The Harder They Fall · 1956The Harder They Fall
★ 7.21956
MovieDrama
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.
A Cry in the Night · 1956A Cry in the Night
★ 5.41956
MovieThrillerCrime
A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.
Hell on Frisco Bay · 1955Hell on Frisco Bay
★ 5.31955
MovieCrimeThriller
A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.
A Bullet for Joey · 1955A Bullet for Joey
★ 5.81955
MovieCrimeThriller
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.
Uranium Boom · 1956Uranium Boom
★ 7.01956
MovieAdventureDrama
Ex-lumberjack Brad Collins and mining engineer Grady Mathews find uranium in the Colorado badlands. While Grady guards the claim, Brad goes to register it in town, where he meets and marries Jean Williams. Returning to the claim, Brad learns that Jean was once Grady's fiancée. Grady, as one would expect, is somewhat put out and leaves the mine in Brad's hands, while he hooks up with a confidence man and engineers a scheme to break the back of Brad's somewhat rapidly-created mining empire.
From Hell It Came · 1957From Hell It Came
★ 3.91957
MovieHorror
A wrongfully accused South Seas prince is executed and returns as a walking tree stump.
The Man Who Turned to Stone · 1957The Man Who Turned to Stone
★ 5.21957
MovieHorrorScience Fiction
A new social worker at a girls' reformatory discovers that her charges are being used by a group of ancient alchemists, who have insinuated themselves as the prison's chief staffers, to keep themselves alive and free from an insidious petrification, which is already afflicting one of their number.
Chain of Evidence · 1957Chain of Evidence
★ 4.91957
MovieCrimeDrama
A police lieutenant fights to prove a boy's innocence after he's accused of murder. The fourth of five Ben Schwab productions that starred Bill Elliott as a detective lieutenant in the L.A. Sheriff's department.
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